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- Presidential pardon frees loggers and handful of political prisoners
- Cyclone batters Rakhine coast
- Sagaing village’s electric ambitions drown in flooding
- Officials use social media to fight flood rumours
- Senior delegation stands with groups fighting in Kokang
- Survey blames flouting of road rules for traffic woes
- Religion looms large over poll as NLD, Ma Ba Tha trade words
- Activists press Chinese mining firm for answers
- Students warn of further protests over law
- YCDC expands waste services after privatisation fails
| Presidential pardon frees loggers and handful of political prisoners Posted: 30 Jul 2015 09:01 PM PDT
A mass presidential pardon yesterday saw nearly 7000 prisoners freed, including foreigners, former military intelligence officers and Chinese loggers whose imprisonment had provoked Beijing's outrage. |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:59 PM PDT Cyclone Komen was battering Rakhine State yesterday as 112-kilometre (70-mile) an hour winds felled trees and lamp posts, flooding drove residents from their homes and phone lines went down, effectively cutting off great swathes of the coastal state. |
| Sagaing village’s electric ambitions drown in flooding Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:52 PM PDT
Sagaing Region's flooding nightmare of the past few days has quenched villagers' dreams of electric power. |
| Officials use social media to fight flood rumours Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:51 PM PDT Local government officials are turning to social media in an effort to share information on the flooding situation in upper Myanmar – and head off rumours of impending dam overflows and other catastrophes. |
| Senior delegation stands with groups fighting in Kokang Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:46 PM PDT
Armed ethnic groups insist that they will not budge from their demand that all members of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team be permitted to sign the draft ceasefire – including Kokang rebels fighting the Tatmadaw in northeastern Shan State. |
| Survey blames flouting of road rules for traffic woes Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:39 PM PDT
More than 500 people surveyed for traffic report, which finds average commute is 30 minutes to one hour. |
| Religion looms large over poll as NLD, Ma Ba Tha trade words Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:34 PM PDT
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi responds to criticism the party is soft on "race and religion", accusing her attackers of violating the constitution. |
| Activists press Chinese mining firm for answers Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:28 PM PDT
Myanmar Yang Tse fails to provide promised information on compensation to displaced villagers, say activists. |
| Students warn of further protests over law Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:27 PM PDT A second wave of student protests may be on the way following the rejection of the amended version of the National Education Law by student leaders. |
| YCDC expands waste services after privatisation fails Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:25 PM PDT Where there's muck, they say, there's kyat. Yangon City Development Committee's hopes of getting out of what is politely called the night-soil trade have been dashed, leaving it neck-deep without a paddle. |
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